How To Install libgavl1 on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libgavl1 on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is libgavl1
libgavl1 is:
Gavl handles all the details of audio and video formats like colorspaces, samplerates, multichannel configurations etc. It provides standardized definitions for those formats as well as container structures for carrying audio samples or video images inside an application.
In addition, it handles the sometimes ugly task to convert between all these formats and provides some elementary operations (copying, scaling, alpha blending etc).
This package contains the files needed to run a program compiled using Gavl.
There are three methods to install libgavl1 on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install libgavl1 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libgavl1 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libgavl1
Install libgavl1 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libgavl1 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libgavl1
Install libgavl1 Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install libgavl1 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libgavl1
How To Uninstall libgavl1 on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the libgavl1 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libgavl1
Uninstall libgavl1 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libgavl1 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libgavl1
Remove libgavl1 Configurations and Data
To remove libgavl1 configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libgavl1
Remove libgavl1 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libgavl1 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libgavl1
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libgavl1 package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
